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Reducing the Number of Undefined Species in Future Status of Australian Fish Stocks Reports: Phase Two - training in the assessment of data-poor stocks

The Status of Australian Fish Stocks (SAFS) Reports bring together available biological, catch and effort information to determine the status of Australia’s key wild catch fish stocks across eight fisheries management jurisdictions. The reports are based on a consistent national reporting framework. By 2020, the target is to increase the number of species covered in SAFS to 200, and at the same time, to reduce the percentage of stocks classified as undefined to less than 10%. Most major commercial species by value are already included in SAFS, so increasing that number to 200 will mean including many data-poor fisheries making achieving both targets by 2020 difficult. This investment will assist fisheries management jurisdictions to characterise data-poor fisheries in a standardised manner to provide seamless input into the SAFS assessment process.

Project date

4 Feb 2018-29 Sep 2018
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Principal investigator

Paul Burch

Research organisations

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Oceans and Atmosphere

Project funded by

Multiple industries
Aquaculture Wild catch fisheries

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)

The Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) is a co-funded partnership between its two stakeholders, the Australian Government and the …
  • Location

    Australia

  • Organisation type

    Research funding body

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